10 Great Las Vegas Steakhouses

Las Vegas and steakhouses go together like red meat and excess, and no other city, not New York, Chicago or Omaha, can match the array of protein temples Sin City offers up. Not only does Las Vegas have many excellent places to eat steak, but here they come in every shape, style and price point, with dry aged USDA Prime alongside the very first restaurant in the U.S. officially licensed to serve real Japanese Kobe beef. There are plenty of traditional, old school steakhouses like the Golden Steer, the city’s oldest, which has served Ali, DiMaggio, Elvis, and even the Chairman of the Board himself, Sinatra. Here tuxedoed waiters debone Dover sole and toss Caesar salads tableside while big cabs are poured and diners slowly sink into deep red leather banquettes. Today the Steer is hotter than ever, and on any given night you might see contemporary regulars like Nicholas Cage or Mario Andretti chowing down.

At the opposite end of the spectrum are more contemporary takes on the model, such as Tom Colicchio’s Heritage Steak, where all the meat is natural, antibiotic and hormone free, or Michael Mina’s StripSteak, where in a nod to molecular gastronomy steaks are slow poached in butter to maximize flavor and texture before being grilled. Celebrity chefs abound, and in addition to Colicchio and Mina, the best Vegas steakhouses include offerings from Wolfgang Puck and Gordon Ramsay.

Along with plenty of great steak, visitors to Las Vegas will find all the classic sides and starters, with no end to the shrimp cocktails, raw oysters, French onion soup, crab cakes, hash browns and creamed spinach. But at the same time, many top steakhouses here, new and old, bring much more unusual signature dishes to the table. You won’t find Chicken Fried Lobster anyplace but Sin City, while Jose Andres’ bison carpaccio is also a rarity and Gordon Ramsay’s individual Beef Wellington is as delicious as it is beautiful.

So next time you visit Las Vegas with a hankering for meat, consider one of these 10 Great Las Vegas Steakhouses (click on the slideshow to view them all).